ray/doc/source/raysgd/raysgd.rst

RaySGD: Distributed Training Wrappers
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RaySGD is a lightweight library for distributed deep learning, providing thin wrappers around PyTorch and TensorFlow native modules for data parallel training.

The main features are:

  - **Ease of use**: Scale PyTorch's native ``DistributedDataParallel`` and TensorFlow's ``tf.distribute.MirroredStrategy`` without needing to monitor individual nodes.
  - **Composability**: RaySGD is built on top of the Ray Actor API, enabling seamless integration with existing Ray applications such as RLlib, Tune, and Ray.Serve.
  - **Scale up and down**: Start on single CPU. Scale up to multi-node, multi-CPU, or multi-GPU clusters by changing 2 lines of code.

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Getting Started
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You can start a ``TorchTrainer`` with the following:

.. code-block:: python

    import ray
    from ray.util.sgd import TorchTrainer
    from ray.util.sgd.torch.examples.train_example import LinearDataset

    import torch
    from torch.utils.data import DataLoader


    def model_creator(config):
        return torch.nn.Linear(1, 1)


    def optimizer_creator(model, config):
        """Returns optimizer."""
        return torch.optim.SGD(model.parameters(), lr=1e-2)


    def data_creator(config):
        train_loader = DataLoader(LinearDataset(2, 5), config["batch_size"])
        val_loader = DataLoader(LinearDataset(2, 5), config["batch_size"])
        return train_loader, val_loader

    ray.init()

    trainer1 = TorchTrainer(
        model_creator=model_creator,
        data_creator=data_creator,
        optimizer_creator=optimizer_creator,
        loss_creator=torch.nn.MSELoss,
        num_workers=2,
        use_gpu=False,
        config={"batch_size": 64})

    stats = trainer1.train()
    print(stats)
    trainer1.shutdown()
    print("success!")

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